[January 18th, 1924] Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, sponsoring a bill to restrict the selling of pistols. The law would place a tax of $100 on each pistol manufactured in the United States and an additional tax on each loaded cartridge.

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[November 11th, 1918] Cheering crowds on a London bus greet the signing of the Armistice, 11 November 1918. At last the war was over- and in time for Christmas, though four years too late to save 10 million lives.

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[September 11th, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter asks, Do you dislike the use of slang?

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[December 17th, 1921] Production & Distribution, A Map of the World, A.D. 1921 (from The Communist)

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[September 23rd, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks, Can people of two different faiths be happily married?

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[May 18th, 1922] Charles Atkins, a 15-year-old African-American boy suspected of killing a white woman was tortured and then burned to death by a lynch mob in Davisboro, Georgia.

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[May 25th, 1922] How The Modern Girl Makes Up.

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[September 5th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks, Is a young woman wise to confess any missteps she has made in life to the man she intends to marry?

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[May 4th, 1920] Monsieur Jacques Begouen

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[July 19th, 1922] Rome: Leader of Fascisti Threatens Revolt. Mussolini, Warning Against Repression of His Comrades, Startles Italian Chamber. (Fascist leader Benito Mussolini warns the Italian government against suppressing his supporters.)

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[November 5th, 1923] How To Train The Ideal Husband— No.2.

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[April 4th, 1923] Hittler Ready for War on Reds in All Germany. Adolf Hitler told the Chicago Tribune that rumours he was planning a march on Berlin to overthrow the government were fairy tales and asserted that his only fight was against bolshevism.

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[October 4th, 1923] Germany To Have Dictator. Stresemann to End 8 Hour Day and Fix Prices. Cabinet Resigns. Reichstag to Go./Bombard Felons at Bay in Prison. 3 Kill Guard; Shoot It Out with Kentucky Troops.

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[January 30th, 1920] J.B. Hayes, White House messenger, 1/30/20. This is J.B. Hayes who for 16 years has been employed at the White House as a messenger. It is Mr. Hayes who carries all official communications to congress from the president.

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[August 19th, 1920] Antwerp Olympic Games - Men's 200 Metres. Many empty seats in the grandstands of the Stadium greet a heat of the men's 200 metres event during the Antwerp Olympic Games on 19th August 1920.

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[June 20th, 1923] U.S. President Warren G. Harding left Washington D.C. for the last time, and would never return. President Harding embarked on a cross-country speaking tour which he called the Voyage of Understanding, set to take him through much of the 48 U.S. states.

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[October 31st, 1923] How To Raise The Social Status of Servants.

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[January 17th, 1924] The Inquiring Reporter from the Chicago Tribune asks, Do you approve of women patronizing barber shops instead of beauty parlors for hair bobs?

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[May 13th, 1918] British soldiers with their rabbits and fowls and the improvised pen in which they are kept. Near Albert, 13 May 1918. Note a pot full of eggs laid by the hens.

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[November 27th, 1923] War Toys Fall Off Ninety-Five Per Cent As Christmas Gifts.

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[September 13th, 1923] Testing bulletproof vest, 9-13-23.

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[April 20th, 1920] April 20 to September 12: At the Olympic Games in Antwerp, the Olympic flag is hoisted for the first time and - by Victor Boin - the Olympic oath is spoken for the first time. (General view of the Opening ceremonies of the VII Olympic Games on April 20, 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.)

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[February 1st, 1924] Successful Men And Their Wives.— No.1.

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[August 15th, 1922] Photo shows Mrs. Ivy Giberson, charged with the murder of her husband, William Giberson.

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[January 30th, 1922] Dr. Grant Attacks New Jazz Music. Prominent New York Rector Declares That It Is Taking Us Back to the African Jungle- Asks if It Is the National Anthem.

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[October 24th, 1923] If We Had A Stop-Flirting League.

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[May 11th, 1922] HP O'Reilly is typing a written version of President Harding's inaugural speech which was recorded on a Telegraphone, Washington DC. This is a new invention that uses ten miles of steel wire to record the speech and then it can be played back through a reproducing machine.

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[February 9th, 1919] First air service links London-Paris

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[October 3rd, 1923] What Was Dick Whittington Really Like?

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[February 24th, 1923] Wonders of Wireless: Or The World Made One.

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[December 10th, 1918], Strasbourg, France, A 15 250

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[September 16th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks, What do you think of the Paris edict bringing back the knee length dress?

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[October 17th, 1919] Growing Sugar In New York City: Park Commissioner Gallatin holds up a sugar beet planted in the garden plot at Bryant Park for the purpose of showing New Yorkers how easy it is to grow your own sugar, New York, October 17, 1919.

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[June 30th, 1920] First: International Dada Fair, in Berlin- the largest anti-art exhibition ever mounted (Otto Dix: 45% Erwerbsfahig!)

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[November 24th, 1923] The Flapper Stands For Parliament.— No.6.

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[March 30th, 1919] The planned tunnel between France and England

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[June 26th, 1918] Big Bertha shells Paris from 65 miles

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[October 22nd, 1923] Captain Hermann Goering ready for any emergency.

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[May 11th, 1920] First NSDAP advertising posters in Munich. Call for the public party rally on May 11, 1920. Speaker: Adolf Hitler

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[August 16th, 1922] Toe doctor, 8/16/22.

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[January 16th, 1922] Pogo Possibilities: A New Means Of Transport.

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[December 7th, 1918] JC Leyendecker, World War I Santa, The Saturday Evening Post cover art, December 7, 1918.

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[October 23rd, 1922] Start of the Conservative ministry of Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the only British Prime Minister born in Canada (ends May 20, 1923).

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[October 18th, 1919] Eamon de Valera in Indian Headdress, 18 October 1919

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[December 31st, 1923] Photograph showing the revellers at the Chelsea Arts Ball, on New Years Eve, 1923. A monumental John Bull figure looks down on the party goers in their fancy dress costumes

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[September 6th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks, Would you marry for money if there was enough of it?

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[June 26th, 1921] Corrida in the Beziers bullring, The matador, Flores, has been gored by a bull.

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[April 20th, 1923] Marathon dancers, 4/20/23.

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[November 20th, 1918] Victory! from Punch.

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[September 29th, 1919] Omaha Mob Hangs and Burns Negro Who Assaulted Girl (Omaha Daily Bee)

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[June 7th, 1922] Fourth of July Don'ts. Don't throw fireworks at playmates. Many terrible burns and accidents have resulted from such thoughtless tricks as this.

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[July 15th, 1922] America's Only Woman Fight Promoter And Manager. Miss Florence North of New York, with the members of her pugilistic stable. They are from left to right, Ned Pincus, Al Cliar, Miss North, Charles Picker, Tony Marto and Trainer Jack Fleming.

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[December 5th, 1923] The Flapper Stands For Parliament.— No.15.

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[April 28th, 1922] Is This Sort Of Tennis Good For Girls?

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[December 27th, 1918] Europe welcomes US President

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[March 15th, 1923] Berlin Offers $10,000,000,000 to Free Ruhr (Germany offered 20 billion gold marks to France and Belgium to end the occupation of the Ruhr.)

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[August 2nd, 1923] Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin in a wheelchair, in Gorki.

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100 years ago today, the attempt of former Emperor Charles to regain the Hungarian throne ended in complete failure, due to energetic action of Admiral Horthy, Regent.

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[December 5th, 1918], Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France, A 15 182 X

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[January 6th, 1923] Fete des rois at the Cirque de Paris, Cecile Sorel, seated in the chair, with children in costume.

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[June 11th, 1922] Is The Modern Child Really So Very Complex?

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[September 10th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks, Do you think it possible for a child celebrity, such as Jackie Coogan, to reach maturity unspoiled in character and disposition by the fame and adulation he has received?

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[November 30th, 1923] The Flapper Stands For Parliament— No.11.

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[December 7th, 1923] The Flapper Stands For Parliament.— No. 17.

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[January 19th, 1920] The latest riots in Berlin were particularly bloody (Excelsior)

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[December 25th, 1918] British troops in mess tent - Christmas 1918

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[September 14th, 1918] Cleveland, Ohio. Pacifist Debs gets 10 years in prison

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[June 7th, 1923] Operator strike: Photo shows girls being escorted from the executive building to branch office switchboards, where they took the places left vacant by the striking girls. Policemen guarded them so that strikers could not make an attempt to threaten the strikebreakers.

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[May 16th, 1918] The Battle of the Lys. Sentry of the 2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in Lievin by a notice saying that no one is allowed past this point in daylight, 16 May 1918.

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[March 3rd, 1919] Lenin seeks to spark revolution in Europe

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[September 20th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks, If you had the means to enjoy life without working would you continue to work?

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[April 15th, 1918] How Long Will The Fuel Last? (Washington Times cartoon)

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[November 12th, 1919] From left to right, Sergeant Walter Henry Shiers (Wally Shiers), Lieutenant Keith Macpherson Smith, Captain Sir Ross Macpherson Smith and Sergeant Jim Bennett at Hounslow Heath Aerodrome in London, just before setting off for Darwin in Australia in a Vickers Vimy biplane.

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[June 27th, 1923] Pope Pius XI condemned the occupation of the Ruhr, taken by French and Belgian troops in Germany to secure payment of reparations. A letter was publicized in which he warned that it could lead to the final ruin of Europe.

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[April 25th, 1918] Cheering troops of the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment near Cassel, 25 April 1918.

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[July 27th, 1922] The New Yorker's Idea of the Map of the United States

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[October 12th, 1918] Mail face protectors worn by American and French tank gunners. Ricicourt (Meuse), 12 October 1918.

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[November 21st, 1923] Calvin Coolidge at the White House with representatives of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

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[March 13th, 1923] Destroying liquor, 3/13/23.

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[August 19th, 1919] Aviation: The United States readopts its pre-January 1918 official national insignia for U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps aircraft, a white star centered in a blue circle with a red disc centered within the star. The marking will remain in use until June 1, 1942.

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[August 26th, 1919] A Good Shot: A competitor at the small arms display during the 1st Life Guards sports day at Hyde Park, London.

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[August 28th, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter asks, At what age should a girl begin to use rouge and go out with fellows?

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[June 21st, 1922] Muriel Quackenbush in Surf Chair at Bathing Beach, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, June 1922.

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[November 14th, 1920] Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya (in the middle) with residents of the village Kashino during the opening ceremony of the powerplant in Kashino, Soviet Union.

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[December 28th, 1918] Saturday Evening Post cover

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[June 25th, 1923] The Enquiring Reporter in Chicago asks people How did you spend the day to keep cool?

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[January 27th, 1922] House Passes Bill to Curb Lynching— Votes 230 to 119 Making It a Federal Crime and Providing Penalties.

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[May 28th, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter asked people at McVickers theater in Chicago, Do you like the colored shoes women are wearing?

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[February 12th, 1919] Dry Humour. President Wilson. Our future lies upon the water! Britannia. Alluding, I presume, to your prohibition movement?

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[September 30th, 1917] Czar and his family are sent to Siberia.

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[May 9th, 1918] An Army Service Corps private talking to a French farm girl. Rollencourt, 9 May 1918.

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[February 17th, 1919] (Original Caption) 2/17/19-New York: Wounded black soldier viewing parade of the 369th colored infantry.

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[June 20th, 1922] Welcoming the Reichswehr in Kreuzburg, Oberschlesien.

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[December 16th, 1918] Parisians welcome President Woodrow Wilson

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[December 24th, 1918] United States 13th Marine Regiment Christmas Eve Dinner, Bordeaux, France, 24 December 1918.

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[June 27th, 1920] British Army Brigadier General Cuthbert Lucas was kidnapped by the Sinn Fein in Ireland while fishing on the River Blackwater near Fermoy in County Cork. After a month in captivity and the threat of execution, General Lucas was able to escape on July 30.

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[July 24th, 1922] Ku Klux Klan Candidates Leading in Texas; Most Big Cities and Counties Carried by Them

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[August 20th, 1923] Steinmetz Says 2023 Will Make 1923 Primitive. Electricity Is Given as Transformer.

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[March 13th, 1919] Nearly Plucked (Demands made from Germany at the Paris Peace Conference)

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[March 1st, 1917] Washington, D.C.: Germany urges Mexico to invade U.S.

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[July 17th, 1922] A group of men following their arrest after a battle at the Richmond Mining Company Plant in Cliftonville, West Virginia, USA. The battle ensued after striking miners had attacked mine guards and state troopers on duty at the mine, killing Sheriff Harding H. Duvall, and six others.

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[March 8th, 1920] A group of geishas at Beppa, Japan, 8th March 1920.

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[May 8th, 1918] A group of First Aid Nursing Yeomanry ambulance drivers attached to the Belgian Army at Calais on 8 May 1918.

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[August 20th, 1922] How Reparations Problems Might Be Settled (Sunday Pictorial cartoon).

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[December 20th, 1921] Southern Men Fight Anti-Lynching Bill. Filibuster in House in Vain Effort to Prevent Its Consideration. Concede Bill Will Pass. Democrats Charge Republicans Seek Only to Gain Negro Votes in the South. (New York Times)

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[November 10th, 1923] Photo shows one of six leopards shot by Massachusetts Congressman George Tinkham and the rhinoceros he shot during his big game hunting expedition.

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[April 10th, 1918] Battle of Estaires. A line of British troops blinded by tear gas at an Advanced Dressing Station near Bethune, 10 April 1918. Each man has his hand on the shoulder of the man in front of him.

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[July 9th, 1922] Petaluma, California: Chicken Checkers. High school girls of Petaluma play checkers in the streets of Petaluma during the summer vacation. They use live chickens tied to boards as markers so as not to get away from the spirit of Petaluma -- namely chicks and eggs.

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[September 22nd, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks, Should married children be compelled to support their aged parents?

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[May 31st, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter asked women in Chicago, What is your idea of a regular fellow?

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[May 18th, 1918] Convalescent troops at Paris-Plage watching baseball, 18 May 1918.

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[November 20th, 1923] The Flapper Stands For Parliament— No.2.

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[July 31st, 1922] This is the most populated street in New York City, that is, East 112th Street, with a mob of neighborhood children and adults watching expectantly.

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[October 11th, 1918] Three British soldiers amusing themselves in Cambrai with the remains of a motor car, 11 October 1918.

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[November 12th, 1918] A group of Irish Guardsmen at Maubeuge, 12 November 1918.

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[August 22nd, 1917] A British soldier stands besides the grave of a comrade near Pilckem during the Third Battle of Ypres, 22nd August 1917.

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[October 12th, 1921] Will Christmas Be Like This?

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[December 3rd, 1918] Concert party organised by women carpenters at the Tarrant Hut Works near Calais, 3 December 1918, to give performances to wounded soldiers.

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[August 18th, 1917] A French soldier and a sergeant of the Royal Garrison Artillery toasting each other in French ration wine at Boezinge, 18th August 1917.

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[January 28th, 1919] History To Repeat Itself? WILSON: I mean to down him before I'm finished. (The hope that the League of Nations will bring an end to war.)

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[June 28th, 1923] Firearms inventor John Browning filed his patent application for his Browning Hi-Power semi-automatic pistol, with the name high power being a reference to its larger capacity, an unprecedented 13-round magazine. Browning would die in 1926 before the granting of the patent.

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[February 2nd, 1924] Alexei Rykov became Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, equivalent to Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, filling the vacancy left by the death of Lenin.

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[March 16th, 1923] Albert Guimares, known as The man in the fur coat, A friend of slain model, Dorothy King, held in murder case.

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[November 16th, 1922] Husband And Wife's Fatal Game At Burglars. (Illustrated Police News)

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[February 1st, 1917] During a potato shortage, a market trader offers pineapples as an alternative, 1 February 1917.

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[August 13th, 1921] A police escort for the England captain, the Honourable Lord Lionel Hallam Tennyson, as he walks out to inspect the wicket after a lengthy rain relay on the first day of the 5th Test match between England and Australia at the Kennington Oval in London.

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[May 5th, 1918] Un poilu de la Somme (Petit Journal)

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[May 17th, 1918] London: Government abolishes compulsory meatless days.

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[November 21st, 1918] The Surrender of the German High Seas Fleet, November 1918. German submarine U48 under way going to her moorings at Harwich.

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[November 6th, 1918] An American soldier manning a 1917 Browning machine gun near the Citadel Hill, Grandpre, 6 November 1918.

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[June 23rd, 1923] Price comparison that illustrates the extent of currency depreciation: 'Today's bread price is 45,000 marks.. that used to be the price of a modern luxury car'

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[December 8th, 1918] Une jeune fille, Emilie Speisser, de face, Geispolsheim, France, A 15 225

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[October 24th, 1918] German bodies in coffins removed from their graves in a War Cemetery for removal to Germany, left behind by the Germans in Radinghem, 24 October 1918

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[October 5th, 1918] Second Lieutenant Val Browning firing a 1917 Browning machine gun invented by his father, John Browning, at Thillombois, 5 October 1918.

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[October 18th, 1918] Troops of the 8th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment (57th British Division, XI Corps), swarmed by local children, entering Lille, 18 October 1918. The soldier carrying a Lewis machine gun is Private Arthur John O'Hare 307465.

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[November 10th, 1918] The Revolution in Berlin, 9-10 November 1918. An armoured car and riflemen (soldiers and sailors of the Soldiers' Council) before the Berlin Castle.

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